• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Thank you. In the discussions on the two car parks for the Olympic games, did you offer any guarantees to the other authorities, either that these would be permanent, or that they would not be permanent?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

So why is this moving ahead so slowly now? Tag and beacon technology has been in use in Europe and in Singapore, indeed, since 1998.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Is the TfL Parliamentary Bill, which is currently in process, not going to actually allow these electronic tags to be placed in private cars?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

So will you be investigating urgently the appropriate legal procedures being put in place, because it does seem the technology is ready. I am surprised that we are now going to have to wait for the legal procedures.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Now, you said that there have been discussions in inner London, but there are just as many nasty congestion hotspots in parts of outer London, where the concept of road user charging is still in its early stages. So are you going to be discussing this with outer London boroughs?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

This is the old clunky camera-based technology.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Which, unfortunately, is not nearly as accurate and is much more expensive to administer. So when do you think the legislation will be ready? One of the big themes of your second period is reducing carbon emissions to attack climate change, and your prime policy is about reducing congestion, and yet the work done for the legislation that is needed seems to be woefully behind.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

That is another thing that really annoys me. You want cycling and walking to increase their modal share. If you look at the tiny percentage of people who travel on the Tube, and on rail, in fact we should be putting thousands of millions of pounds into cycling and walking over the next few years, otherwise we are not competing with these big projects.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

I can make them cost thousands of millions of pounds, do not worry.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Thanks for that. My problem with the 2025 document is that it lacks vision. You say that it wants to build on progress and that sort of thing, but actually there is not a vision for anything to do with walking or cycling beyond 2009. Will you read, first of all, at least the summary of the response that we have put in on this document, which outlines some of the places where we could have a bit more vision?